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From another page on the site: "The passenger accommodation aboard Hindenburg was contained within the hull of the airship (unlike Graf Zeppelin, whose passenger space was located …

I've very carefully hoarded photos. I don't miss the photos, but I really miss the meta-data, more-so for scanned real photos. I loved photography back in the day, and so took a lo…

I've long wondered how much HN karma I could farm by keeping track of the top-X HN blogs and auto-posting the links with a bot. There are also a number of other blogs I read that a…

My father was gifted a pair of these for his 50th birthday, would have been 1989, in London. Little ICE scooters. They were a lot of fun and not very safe. We had drunk guests dama…

I have been particularly irritated in the past where people use a lower log level and include the higher log level string in the message, especially where it's then parsed, filtere…

"It could have overwhelmed cell towers, toppling New York City’s cell service and preventing every Manhattan resident from accessing Google Maps." Seems odd that the most important…

Especially at larger companies there’s very little difference between $10, $100, $1000, $10,000 from the perspective of the effort put in to pay for it. You’re putting the same req…

Project Binky is well worth a watch if you enjoy car restoration, upgrades/rebuilding, and generally extreme make-overs on classic cars.

What’s he a whistleblower of? He didn’t work at JS, so it’s not there. This report seems off. From other more trustworthy sources (eg BBG/Levine) JS were trading the illiquid stock…

Well that took me back. For some reason no friends or family took me seriously when I brought it up at the time.

We did this when we renovated. Had a kitchen wall section chalk board painted for notes, as well as a much larger section of the kids play room wall. The notes was useful space on …

I’m a manager, and have been for a while (although I also have 1-1s). Personally, I think project updates belong in stand-up, sprint planning, tickets, etc. Anywhere except 1-1s. I…

Because it’s within a set of three speaker buttons. The first has no sound, the second a less sound, the third more sound. They correspond to mute (no sound), lower volume (less), …

Yes, within the set of three speaker icons it makes perfect sense. If it was a one-off it’s unintuitive, but on the keyboard where it’s used it’s fine.

Always seems that people forget piholes run really well in a docker container basically anywhere. The pi bit of it is less important than the hole bit of it. and with things like T…

I was worried more sometimes the OS will just reset everything in /etc (and other places) on reinstall

>> Several hundred employees have been impacted with messages being sent from an ‘exec order’ Microsoft email address, not an official .gov email address. Can I register doge_exec_…

I've used a Mac and linux for 20+ years and never knew about this. Maybe coming to OS X from linux meant I never bothered to ask the official way to set a path. How did you find ou…

Funny, I do exactly the same thing, except it’s .shellrc because it’s for any shell.

Wow did I love this, and feel targeted. After an afternoon pointlessly dicking around with the ansible I use at home, it was fun and I agree to wholeheartedly. To defend myself, th…

Nothing says big bank more than being yelled at by your ex-boss, with a different ex-boss in the room, while your real boss has no idea what's going on, and being maybe, but not re…

In industries like finance each datacenter will have its own GPS receivers with dedicated antennae, and custom timekeeping devices to act as the local stratum-1 servers, and use PT…

My 12 yr old just spent a week in bed with flu A, fever over 100 consistently for the week. A couple of weeks before he was wishing for flu so he could skip school, but I don't thi…

> More importantly, Browsers and HTML are never deprecated. Browsers are, and HTML is on v5 and has deprecated things. And using JS definitely can be deprecated too. "Just raw HTML…

murid, noun, Any member of the Muroidea superfamily of rodents. RAT, a remote access tool/trojan.